Melissa Senate

Yes, that's a giant walking clam, which means it's time for the annual Yarmouth Clam Festival, a three day extravaganza that takes over my town (in a very good way) this weekend. I don't like clams, but I do love this festival and the carnival and the face painting and the cotton candy. 

Yesterday I finished reading (for the second time) Nora Ephron's wonderful collection of personal essays, I Feel Bad About My Neck, and she was talking about books that strike such a chord in her she has to actually put them down for a moment. In the past few weeks, three books have done that for me: The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum; Some Assembly Required by Lynn Kiele Bonasia; and Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos.  Next up on my TO BE READ pile is Janelle Brown's All We Wanted Was Everything and the always hilarious Lee Nichols' Reconstructing Brigid.

Melissa